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Emerson Making Sense Webinar
Emerson’s next Making SENSE webinar will explore the many operating implications of CO2-based refrigeration systems from a service technician’s perspective and help them prepare to effectively deal with the refrigerant’s unique properties. Read more
Webinar session on: "Why Isn’t the Ozone Hole Story Already History?"
This will be an informative, interesting and entertaining webinar which will ensure you are up to speed on one of humanities greatest environmental threats and also the most successful environmental treaty ever created. Read more
12 and 13 June 2015 The intersessional informal meeting on the feasibility and ways of managing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
The intersessional informal meeting on the feasibility and ways of managing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) was held at the Vienna International Centre on 12 and 13 June 2015. Read more
Webinar: Climate Finance for Cities and Buildings and Climate-related mechanisms to support Sustainable Public Procurement
Hosted by UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, the first joint webinar of the Sustainable Public Procurement programme and the Global Initiative for Resource-Efficient Cities will focus on the
climate finance tools and the use of climate-related mechanisms to support sustainable public procurement (SPP) at the local level. Read more
Beware of the R-22a Alternative Refrigerant
As everyone knows R-22 was phased out in 2010, production was scaled back in 2015, and it will be completely phased out in 2020. With these phase outs occurring over the past five years the price of R-22 Freon has sky rocketed to right at about three hundred dollars for a thirty pound cylinder. With that high of a price point there is bound to be opportunity for profit. Well, a few refrigerant manufacturing/distributing companies started marketing an alternative to R-22 called R-22a. Read more
Industry warned refrigerants costs rising 'ten to twenty times' as F-Gas quotas bite
UK cooling companies faces the prospect of soaring refrigerant costs if fail to move quickly enough towards lower-GWP refrigerants. That was the view of experts at RAC’s F-Gas Question Time last week. Read more
MTL Cool to demonstrate energy-saving HCR188C/ R441A hydrocarbon-blend coolant in refrigerated display unit at FMI Connect
MTL Cool, a Canadian manufacturer of refrigerated point-of-purchase display systems, will be show-casing a two-door cooler unit now running at 18% greater energy efficiency since switching to use of HCR188C/R441A hydrocarbon-blend refrigerant. Read more
It’s back! Methyl chloride found in fake R22
A leading Chinese manufacturer is offering a reward for help in stopping sales of counterfeit refrigerants, including dangerous methyl chloride cocktails. Read more
Annual Meeting of the Regional Ozone Network for Europe & Central Asia, Yerevan, Armenia
The Ministry of Nature Protection of Armenia and UNEP’s OzonAction Programme in cooperation with UNDP Armenia have jointly organized the annual meeting of the Regional Ozone Network for Europe & Central Asia (ECA Network) in Yerevan, Armenia, 26-28 May 2015. Read more
Ban Ki-moon backs HFC reductions
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has backed efforts to reduce HFC emissions, describing action as being essential to combat climate change. Read more
UNIDO completed conversion to ozone-safe technologies at OAO PO Sergo Plant and OOO SEPO-ZEM
Supply, installation and commissioning of the process equipment for production of medical devices and domestic refrigerating appliances at OAP PO Sergo Plant (Zelenodolsk, Republic of Tatarstan) and domestic and commercial refrigerating equipment at OOO SEPO-ZEM (Saratov). The equipment was purchased at the expense of the Project funds. The enterprises are fully converted to use of an ozone-safe foaming agent for polyurethane insulation, i.e. cyclopentane. Read more
Discussion of the initial version of the draft professional standard “Refrigerating, heat pump, and air-conditioning equipment technician.”
The discussion of the initial draft of professional standard “Refrigerating, heat pump, and air-conditioning equipment technician.”, prepared by a working group comprising representatives of self-regulating associations NP ISZS-Montazh and NP ISZS-Proyekt, Association of Professional in the Industry of Climate (APIC), Russian Union of Refrigeration Industry (ROSSOYUSKHOLODPROM) and other relevant organizations, UNIDO Centre for International Industrial Cooperation in the Russian Federation and Professional training center—state independent educational institution of the city of Moscow was held on April 28, 2015. Read more
Seventh Meeting of the HCFC Phase-Out Steering Committee
On April 9-10, 2015 Seventh meeting of the Steering Committee of UNIDO/GEF-MNRE of Russia project “Phase Out of HCFCs and Promotion of HFC-Free Energy Efficient Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Systems in the Russian Federation Through Technology Transfer” was held in Vienna. Read more
The celebration of the 25th anniversary of the UNIDO Centre for International Industrial Cooperation in the Russian Federation
23 December 2014— Analytical Centre for the Government of the Russian Federation hosted the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the UNIDO Centre for International Industrial Cooperation in the Russian Federation. Read more
Changes to the Russian legal framework as regards ODS circulation
On November 20, 2014, the Russian government adopted two documents that specified certain aspects of ODS circulation in the country. Read more